Liquid Armor Screen Protector Real World Test - Dragging Phones Behind My Motorbike Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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So, not that long ago, guys, I did an unboxing of the Liquid Armor Invisible
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Nano Coating Tech Screen Protector. And what I said was that at the time, I
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didn't really have a way to validate whether this stuff works or not. So,
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what it claims is that with the liquid coating, you basically just spray it on
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a screen, wipe it in one direction, and leave it for 24 hours to cure, or even I
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think it's just uh whatever. It's not that long to dry, and then 24 hours to
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cure, and it will make your screen up to
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two times stronger than traditional screen protectors, which sounds pretty
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good, right? But unless you validate it, then it's just a claim on a box. So,
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Slick and I came up with an experiment today.
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where we're taking two dummy phones. So, these are a BlackBerry Curve and a
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BlackBerry Bold. And we're going to drag them on string behind my
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motorcycle. We're going to drag them screenside down. And I I wrote on the
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backs of them. So, this one is our liquid armor coated one. You won't
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you're not going to be able to read that. You can read it. Oh, cool. And this is our control group one. So, the
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bold has been coated with liquid armor 3 days ago, and the curve has not been
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coated with liquid armor at all. So, we're going to tie these down and we're
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going to drag them down to the end of the street and see if there's actually
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any difference in the scratched upness of the screens when we're done. So, stay
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tuned, guys. This is going to be fun. So, I don't know if you guys noticed
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this. I don't know if you can see it in the camera, but here I'm going to try
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I'll try and catch some on my sweater. It's actually snowing right now. So, I
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don't know why this always happens. It must be slick because every time I film
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something outside with him, it starts freaking snowing. So anyway, we're set
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up now. There's the two phones. And uh
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here we go.
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All right. So you guys are going to be here
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for the results. So this is our control
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phone and this is our liquid armor phone. So let's do the control phone
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first. So you can see the control phone is scratched to high hell. The only part
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we're really going to be looking at here though, guys, is the screen itself
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because this is going to be the same on both phones here. Actually, we should wipe it off so that we get a good
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representation. Okay. And this part has not been coated with liquid armor on the
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other one. So you can see how scratched up the screen is. Can you see pretty well?
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Um, how about like a better angle? Does that
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help? Okay, good. We got it. All right. Here is the liquid armor phone. So,
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let's
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see.
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Um, oh, hold on a
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second. Oh, check it out.
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The scratched up coating is the liquid armor. Look at that, guys. I didn't
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realize it was going on so thick. So, you see how scratched up the screen is,
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right? But then when I Oh, check this out. No, this actually works. I was
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pretty disappointed at first there, but look at this. If I scrape the liquid
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armor back off, you're supposed to reapply it every 6 months or so, the
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screen is actually not scratched. Holy
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smokes. Look at that.
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Okay, so guys, the answer is liquid armor actually freaking works. Even if
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you drag your phone behind you on a motorcycle, I got up to about 30 35 km
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an hour. Huh. I was not expecting this stuff to work nearly that well. So, I'm
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officially done with stupid screen protectors, with their stupid applicator
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cardboards, and all that kind of crap because this is amazing. So, thank you
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